Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis
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چکیده
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a gastrointestinal disease that mostly affects premature infants. It involves infection and inflammation that causes destruction of the bowel. Although it affects only 1 in 2,000 to 4,000 births, or between 1 and 5% of neonatal intensive care unit admissions, NEC is the most common and serious gastrointestinal disorder among hospitalized preterm infants. We present a very representative abdominal X-ray of this disease.
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31 Jackman S, Brereton RJ, Wright VM. Results of surgical treatment of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. BrJ Surg 1990, 77: 146-8. 32 Smith SD, Tagge EP, Miller J, Cheu H, Sukarochana K, Rowe MI. The hidden mortality in surgically treated necrotizing enterocolitis: fungal sepsis. J Pediatr Surg 1990; 25: 1030-3. 33 Cikrit D, Mastandrea J, West KW, Schreiner RL, Grosfeld JL. Necrotizing entero...
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